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Understanding America's Poverties and Drowning Mothers
Peter Marin
APF Fellow
1991
© 1992 Peter Marin
Connie Taylor and three of her eight children. They live in a housing project owned by the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Connie Taylor and her daughter.
At the kitchen table in Connie Taylor’s apartment.
Four of Connie Taylor’s children.
The housing projects in New Orleans are unappealing and covered with graffiti and boarded-up windows.
A resident of subsidized housing in New Orleans sits with her three children.
Another resident cuddles her daughter.
Residents of the apartments owned by the New Orleans housing authority pose on the front porch.
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